Chronicling the Civil War of 150 years ago from the pages of The Clarke County Journal* of the 1860s.

By Jim Cox

* Name changed from The Clarke County Democrat during the war. Cannon illustration from the papers of the 1860s. Losses at Gettysburg, Vicksburg in July 1863 turning points in war July 1863 was not a good month for the Confederate States of America. More...

Joyce Burrage last week incorrectly identified Wanda Phillips Walker and misstated her relationship to Sarah Phillips, one of the victims of the attack on on Fort Sinquefield. The relationship should have been a great-great-great aunt. More...

A couple of Saturdays ago I stood on the site of old Fort Sinquefield a few miles east of Grove Hill and watched frontiersmen reenactors and their Creek Indian counterparts talk about the confrontation there 200 years ago. More...